Improvement in seats for vehicles



'D. R. ALLEN,

Carriage Seat.

No. 111,714. Patented Feb. 34, I871.

rLPETERS, PHOTWUTHOGRAPMEB. x-msnmora o c.

Letters Patent No. 111,714, dated February 14, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT lN SEATS FOR VEHICLES.

' The Schedule referred to in these LetteraePat'ent and making part ofthe name.

f Beit-k'nown that I, DANIEL 1t. Annex, of Combei'land, in the county ofCumberland and-State of Maine, have inventeda new and useful ImprovedSeat for Vehicles and for Agricultural-Machincs; and I hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being bad to the accompanying drawing forming part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 shows a side elevation.

-Figure 2, a front-end elevation.

Same letters show like parts.

My improved seat can be upheld by a single post, or more than one, andeither vertical or inclined.

In the accompanying drawing- A shows the inclined standard upholding theseat.

FY0111 this standard extend springs, or tongues, or hai's'of metal, B O,in such manner and direction as to support or carry-the connections I),which are so attached to the seat E as to allow of its swinging oroscillating motion from side to side and haelnvard and tor-ward.

\Vhile thus swinging, the said seat, by reason of its being snspendedorsupported by the connections, will he always horizontal or nearly so.

The tongues B and '0 may be made rigid, and of any material, if desired,and a suificient spring up and down imparted to the seat either by anycurved form attending the structure of the connections I), or by theuseof springs F, which-can be either of rubber or metal. 7

Diiiercnt from the device patented by me in Letters Patent before thisissued to me, No. 109,368, Nov. 22,- 1870, the pointsii-om which theseat is supported iu'this position are, in this application, underneaththe seat E, which permits the said seat to be made with no back, or aslow a one as maybe desired.

Witnesses Instead of theinclined standard two or more .upright ones canbe used, and lntve theconnections attached directly to them, or the scatmay he supported by rods or connections having universal joints, capableof allowing tlie'motiou of the seat to any hand or direction, and fittedwith springs, it desired.

The said connections 1) can, as herein illustrated, or in any equivalentmanner, be united directly with the seat so as to allow oi its vibratorymotion, and may have, if desired, to give steadiness to the motion,weights.

In the drawing G shows posts or standards extending down from the seat,from which the seat is supported, the vibratory motion being obtained attheir lower ends; but it can be also so constructed that the saidmot-ion shall; he obtained at i-i other end of said standards.

It is plain that the seat and its back may be made rigidly connectedtogether, and the connect-ions which admit of the oscillatory motion beattached to the said back and not to the seat, or to the seat and not tothe back.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-.-

1. The connections or supports I) when used to uphold the seat 1*] bysuch means as to permit of its oscillating, motion, and still keep thesaid seat horizontal or nearly so, as herein described.

2. The seat E, when siispended by connections D arranged underneath saidseat, and. with or without the springs or bars 13 G, as herein. setforth.

3. The springs l when applied, as herein set forth, either to the top orbottom of the supports 1).

lDiANlEL R. ALLEN.

W. H. CLIFFORD, l). H. Wrnsox.

